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Verse 11. _THIS IS THE RECORD_] The great truth to which the
_Spirit_, the _water_, and the _blood_ bear testimony. _God hath_
_given us eternal life_-a _right_ to endless glory, and a _meetness_
for...
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AND THIS IS THE RECORD - This is the sum, or the amount, of the
testimony (μαρτυρία marturia) which God has given respecting
him.
THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE - Has provided, through the
Sa...
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V. HEREBY WE KNOW
Chapter S 3:19-5:13
_ 1. Hereby we know that we are of the truth (1 John 3:19)_
2. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God (1 John 4:1)
3. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth and of error...
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Reference to the faith held by the Church concerning Christ leads John
to specify in symbolic terms what that faith was and the witness by
which it was sustained. The truth belongs to the sphere of re...
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And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life and that that
life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life; he who has not the
Son has not life. I have written these things to you who beli...
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LOVE WITHIN THE DIVINE FAMILY (1 John 5:1-2)...
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HATH GIVEN. gave. See Romans 6:23.
ETERNAL. App-151.
LIFE. App-170....
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S. John's characteristic repetition of the word -witness" is greatly
weakened in A. V. by the substitution of -testify" in 1 John 5:9 and
-record" in 1 John 5:10: see on 1 John 1:2;...
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_And this is the record_ Better, as R.V., AND THE WITNESS IS THIS, as
in 1 John 5:9: this is what the external witness of God, when it is
internally appropriated by the believer, consists in; viz. the...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. God is Love
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). T...
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Faith is the Source of Love, the Victory over the World and the
Possession of Life
1. _Whosoever believeth_ Or, _Every one that believeth_: the
construction is identical with that in 1Jn 2:29, 1 John...
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1 John 2:29 to 1 John 5:12. GOD IS LOVE
There seems to be no serious break in the Epistle from this point
onwards until we reach the concluding verses which form a sort of
summary (1 John 5:13-21). Th...
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9–11. S. John’s characteristic repetition of the word
‘witness’ is greatly weakened in A.V. by the substitution of
‘testify’ in 1 John 5:9, and ‘record’ in 1 John 5:10-11 : see
on 1 John 1:2;...
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ΚΑῚ ΑὝΤΗ ἘΣΤῚΝ Ἡ ΜΑΡΤ. As R.V., AND THE WITNESS
is THIS, as in 1 John 5:9 : this is what the external witness of God,
when it is internally appropriated by the believer, consists in; viz.
the Divine g...
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ΈΔΩΚΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать....
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THE GOSPEL RECORD
1 John 5:11. _This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal
life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and
he that hath not the Son o...
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CHAPTER XV
_FAITHTHE POWER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS_
1 John 5:4-12
A.
_The Text_
For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is
the victory that hath overcome the world, even our fait...
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And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son.
HATH GIVEN - aorist, 'gave,' once for all. Not only 'promised' it.
LIFE IS IN HIS SON - essentially (;...
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VERSE 11. AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN.
The important part of God's testimony, the most important to man, is
that God bestowed upon us eternal life through his Son. We know that
we pos...
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6 It is a remarkable fact that the word _ testify _ is used concerning
the Lord's baptism in water (Joh_1:34), and concerning His crucifixion
(Joh_19:35), and here again of the spirit (6). This is con...
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THE LOVE, OBEDIENCE, AND ASSURANCE OF BELIEVERS
1. The reason for brotherly love.
2. This is the converse of 1 John 4:19. Love to God and love to the
brethren being inseparable, each is the test of...
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HOW CAN I BE SURE?
1 JOHN
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CHAPTER 5
*FAITH OVERCOMES THE *WORLD (1 JOHN 5:1-5)
V1 Jesus is the *Christ. Everyone who believes this has been born of
God. Everyone who loves the fa...
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V.
(8.)
FAITH THE TEST OF LOVE (1 John 5:1).
(_a_)
_Its power_ (1 John 5:1).
(_b_)
_The evidence on which it rests_ (1 John 5:6).
(_c_)
_What it contains_ ...
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The Testimony of the Incarnation. _cf._ 1 John 1:2. ἔδωκεν,
“gave,” aorist referring to a definite historic act, the
Incarnation....
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Our attitude to the Threefold Testimony. “If we receive the
testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the
testimony of God what He hath testified concerning His Son. He that
b...
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THE VICTORIOUS LIFE
1 John 5:1
The “begotten” children of God are constantly referred to in this
Epistle. The word indicates the communication, in regeneration, of the
divine nature, of which the fi...
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The final subject is our fellowship with God in life. This is
fundamental, and is shown to be so. The relationship between the life
of God and the love of God is self-evident, and that is equally true...
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THE MEANS AND RESULTS OF HAVING ETERNAL LIFE
Jesus was sent to open the way to eternal life in heaven, and to
believe on Him, in the obedient way already discussed in earlier
comments, is to gain that...
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(12) And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life,
and this life is in his Son.
(12) Now at length he shows what this testimony is that is confirmed
with so many witnesses: that is,...
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And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the
water, and the blood: and these three agree in one. (9) If we receive
the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is...
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_ETERNAL LIFE_
‘And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in His son. He that hath the Son hath life.’
1 John 5:11
When the words ‘eternal life’ are uttered i...
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11_That God hath given us eternal life _Having now set forth the
benefit, he invites us to believe. It is, indeed, a reverence due to
God, immediately to receive, as beyond controversy, whatever he
de...
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But a danger exists on the other side. It may be, that we love the
brethren because they are pleasant to us; they furnish us with
agreeable society, in which our conscience is not wounded. A
counter-p...
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AND THIS IS THE RECORD,.... The sum and substance of it, with respect
to the person of Christ, and the security of salvation in him, who is
the true God, and eternal life:
THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US E...
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And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in his Son.
Ver. 11. _That God hath given to us, &c._] How plain is the Holy
Scripture in things needful to salvation!...
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_And this is the record_ Η μαρτυρια, _the testimony;_ the sum
of God's testimony concerning his Son, and salvation through him:
this is the thing testified by the six witnesses the three in heaven,
an...
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GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE; made known to us the way of life, and given
it to all who take that way.
THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON; he is the author of it, and it is obtained by
faith in him....
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AND THIS IS THE RECORD, THAT GOD HATH GIVEN TO US ETERNAL LIFE, AND
THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON....
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The essence of faith:...
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“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and
everyone that loveth Him that begat loveth him also that is begotten
of Him.” The faith that Jesus is the Christ is here seen to
corre...
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9-12 Nothing can be more absurd than the conduct of those who doubt
as to the truth of Christianity, while in the common affairs of life
they do not hesitate to proceed on human testimony, and would...
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His testimony, that this is his Son and the Christ, imports so much,
that eternal life is in him, as the source and fountain of it; so that
he gives it to us in no other way than in and by him....
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Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth
Accordingly, those also who fell asleep received the seal of the Son
of God. For," he continued, "before a man bears the name of the Son of
God[27]...
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1 John 5:11 And G2532 this G3778 is G2076 (G5748) testimony G3141 that
G3754 God G2316 given G1325 ...
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‘He who believes on the Son of God has the witness in him. He who
does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed
in the witness that God has borne concerning his Son. And the wi...
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1 John 5:11-12. AND THE WITNESS IS THIS, THAT GOD GAVE UNTO US ETERNAL
LIFE, AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON. These closing words concerning that
testimony of which the beginning of the Epistle spoke, go...
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The ruling idea of the third part is Faith in the Spirit's testimony
concerning the Son of God incarnate. The close of chap. 3 introduces
the theme by the first explicit mention of faith and the Spiri...
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THAT GOD GAVE
(οτ εδωκεν ο θεος). Declarative οτ in apposition with
μαρτυρια as in verse 1 John 5:14; John 3:19. Note aorist
active indicative εδωκεν (from διδωμ) as in 1 John 3:23,
the great histor...
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1 John 5:6
The Witness of Christ.
"Witness!" The word in its emphatic recurrence is typical of the
situation out of which the Epistle springs. The special perils and
anxieties with which the Church i...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God._
Take comfort, believer, from that declaration. You have accepted Jesus
as the Christ the anointed of God, so the apostle aff...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of
God:_
These are very simple words, but they contain a great depth of
meaning. The teaching conveyed by this Epistle is very profou...
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CONTENTS: Faith the overcoming principle. The advantages of faith in
salvation, prayer, preservation from sin.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan, John.
CONCLUSION: He who has been born agai...
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1 John 5:1. _Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of
God._ The faith which embraces him as the Lord of glory, has a
regenerating influence on the heart. The immediate fruit is love to...
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IS THE WITNESS. "This is the _truth_ which God has declared: He _has
given_ (made available in Christ-on-the-cross) us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son!!!" [Christ-on-the-cross includes the _...
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_And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and
this life is in His Son _
THE DIVINE RECORD
It is obvious that the designs of God respecting the work of His hands
entirely depend...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:1 Faith in the Son as the Way to Life. So
far, John has written much about love and obedience, but not so much
about faith. He now shifts to the importance of believing in the...
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1 JOHN—NOTE ON 1 JOHN 5:11 The TESTIMONY supporting faith in Christ
is the message of Jesus’ incarnation, death, and resurrection.
Through these, ETERNAL LIFE is available through faith in his Son
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
1 John 5:9. RECEIVE.—λαμβάνομεν; admit as valid. The
testimony of two human witnesses is admitted; here is the threefold
testimony of God—the voice at baptism, the acc...
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EXPOSITION
1 JOHN 5:1
Faith is the source of love.
1 JOHN 5:1
The verse is a sorites. To believe in the Incarnation involves birth
from God. To be born of God involves loving God. To love God invol...
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Chuck Smith
Whosoever believes that Jesus is the Messiah is born of God: and every
one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him
(1 John 5:1).
So I say, "I love Jesus. He is...
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1 John 1:1; 1 John 2:25; 1 John 4:9; 1 John 5:10; 1 John 5:12;...
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Hath given [ε δ ω κ ε ν]. The aorist tense, gave. So Rev. The
reference is to the historic fact of the gift. So 1 John 3:23 : "We
should love one another as He gave [ε δ ω κ ε ν] us
commandment." Ver...
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SALVATION MADE SURE
1 John 5:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Taking stock is a very important thing with the business man. Laying a
good foundation is a very important task with the builder, Feeling
the. pulse...
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SOME THINGS WE MAY KNOW
1 John 5:1, _1 John 5:11_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
There may be some places where uncertainties lend enchantment to the
view, but in matters of life and death we want full assuranc...
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And this is the sum of that testimony, that God hath given us a title
to, and the real beginning of, eternal life; and that this is
purchased by, and treasured up in, his Son, who has all the springs...
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As if our apostle had said, "The sum of God's testimony recorded in
the gospel is this, concerning his Son Jesus Christ, namely, that God
for his sake has made. free deed of gift, of pardon and salvat...